Hello and welcome to 2013. This is a belated greeting, but it’s never too late to get started.
We have seen New Year’s Day come and go, Valentine’s Day come and go, and probably all the well-intentioned New Years resolutions as well.
It’s belated for me because I had to spend an unscheduled extra few weeks in South Africa due to a back spasm. It wasn’t all in vain, I got to spend time catching up on all relationships and doing some intensive reflection for my personal growth and personal purpose for moving forward in 2013.
If you’re like most people in this world,
you might have started out with good intentions for 2013. Generally, people do not want more of last year, but to accomplish more this year than they did last year, so they set goals or commonly called New Years resolutions. The thing about this just setting a goal or a New Year’s resolution and not having it as part of an overall strategic plan for your life or business sets it up to fail.
A life strategy will give you the foundation and the guideline to make your goal setting effective because it then lines up with the overall purpose of your life.
A life or leadership strategy will consist of:
1. A clear-cut picture of the outcome you want;
How will you know if your goals or your accomplishments will contribute to your life’s purpose if that purpose is not clearly defined in a picture of where you want to be at a determined point in your future?
The personal strategy for your life and leadership needs you to write, I repeat write, out a vision or a picture of where you want to be at a set time in your future.
2. A clarity regarding what is important and what is not important to you;
Setting goals and taking actions may just be a good idea that you’ve borrowed from somebody else, but may, in fact, create conflict within yourself because they do not line up and find resonance with your own personal belief system.
Take time to reflect on the characteristics that are important to you that guide your decision making.
3.A focused sense of purpose;
If goals and actions are not mapped from your designed purpose, then they could be leading you to accomplish and achieve and acquire that which doesn’t fulfil you.
When you consider the roles and responsibilities of your life and leadership that you desire to fulfil, then it starts becoming clear what your personal purpose is, that is written deep within you.
4. A written plan;
Without writing your strategic plan you do not engage your logical, action taking part of your nature. Dreams stay dreams without an action plan! And action is only taken when you engage your creative and the logical parts of your brain. Write down the dates and how you will know you have accomplished these goals of this plan.
I’m praying you have a very successful and fulfilling 2013. May you have the strength, wisdom and inspiration to live the purposed life you were designed for.
Blessings
Shaun
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